[lbo-talk] Am I or Am I Not Charlie?

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Thu Jan 8 19:11:56 PST 2015


On Thu, January 8, 2015 8:33 pm, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
> "Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem" => the simplest
> explanation is to be preferred.

That's not *at all* what the Latin means. At all.

Though this is a common overgeneralization of the famous Razor, which is a much more precise observation.

-- Michael Smith

It is very easy for someone to be good at math; most of the time the kind of math that economists do would not impress a mathematician, but it is enough to impress people around them in the school of social sciences. -- Thomas Piketty



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